Use selenium in Colab

selenium.py

# install chromium, its driver, and selenium
!apt update
!apt install libu2f-udev libvulkan1
!wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
!dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
!wget https://edgedl.me.gvt1.com/edgedl/chrome/chrome-for-testing/118.0.5993.70/linux64/chromedriver-linux64.zip
!unzip -j chromedriver-linux64.zip chromedriver-linux64/chromedriver -d /usr/local/bin/
!pip install selenium chromedriver_autoinstaller

# set options to be headless, ..
from selenium import webdriver
import chromedriver_autoinstaller
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
chromedriver_autoinstaller.install()

# open it, go to a website, and get results
wd = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
wd.get("https://www.website.com")
print(wd.page_source)  # results
# divs = wd.find_elements_by_css_selector('div')

selenium2.py

# I create my own library to make it even easier
!pip install kora -q
from kora.selenium import wd
wd.get("https://www.website.com")
print(wd.page_source)  # results

selenium3.py

# I add a few helpers
divs = wd.select("div") # css selecter
div = divs[0]
span = div.select1("span") # return the first result
wd   # screenshot

As I run the code ,after completion its not directed to the provided url ,however the page source is printed,can help me on this?

this chrome-driver is running in headless mode so it will run in background You can disable it

could you show the code how to disable headless in it so that it shows the url page. thanks

I will reply to this, hope it helps you.

While using "google collaborate" you must run selenium in headless mode because it can't display new browsers. Therefore, the only way to run it without headless mode would be through your own device, declaring your webdriver not specifying the headless option.

If you still want to run it in headless mode either because you are using collab or because you plan to use it in a server-side environment, there's still a way to print the page's url:

# Consider wb as your webdriver
wb = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = driverPath , options=chrome_options)

# Display webdriver's current url
print(wb.current_url)

# If you want to display the title of the page your webdriver is visting
print(wb.title)

# If you want to display the html of the page your webdriver is visting
print(wb.page_source)

Useful. That really worked for me.

As I run the code ,after completion its not directed to the provided url ,however the page source is printed,can help me on this?

this chrome-driver is running in headless mode so it will run in background You can disable it

could you show the code how to disable headless in it so that it shows the url page. thanks

I will reply to this, hope it helps you.

While using "google collaborate" you must run selenium in headless mode because it can't display new browsers. Therefore, the only way to run it without headless mode would be through your own device, declaring your webdriver not specifying the headless option.

If you still want to run it in headless mode either because you are using collab or because you plan to use it in a server-side environment, there's still a way to print the page's url:

# Consider wb as your webdriver
wb = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path = driverPath , options=chrome_options)

# Display webdriver's current url
print(wb.current_url)

# If you want to display the title of the page your webdriver is visting
print(wb.title)

# If you want to display the html of the page your webdriver is visting
print(wb.page_source)

Thank you, that was really helpful!

How to add others web driver options using kora?

You can create your own wd

from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
# create a webdriver instance, ready to use
wd = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver',options=options)

Kora just help with installation and create a default wd for you.

Nice job, btw, for those who cannot use the code provided by korakot, use:

from IPython.display import Javascript
def open_web():
  url = 'https://github.com/jiahaoli57'
  display(Javascript('window.open("{url}");'.format(url=url)))

Hi Korakot!
I'm trying tu use selenium in Google Colab, but I'm having trouble to refert to de chromedriver.exe file.
If I put it in the Colaboratory space, I get the message "'chromedriver.exe' executable may have wrong permissions."
And if I refer to the file in my computer, the error is: Message: "'C:\chromedriver\chromedriver.exe' executable needs to be in PATH."
I also failed to use webdriver-manager in the Colab environment.
Can you help me on this?

I just want to say thank you, I was trying everything I could for a project I was working on, nothing worked until I came across this, you are genuinely amazing for making this

For reference, this method is first discovered here in Dec 2018.

Getting below error for Google Colab Selenium with Chrome

Code:

install chromium, its driver, and selenium

!apt update
!apt install chromium-chromedriver
!pip install selenium# set options to be headless, ..
from selenium import webdriver
options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('--headless')
options.add_argument('--no-sandbox')
options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')

create a webdriver instance, ready to use

wd = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver',options=options)

Error

WebDriverException Traceback (most recent call last)
in
6 options.add_argument('--disable-dev-shm-usage')
7 # create a webdriver instance, ready to use
----> 8 wd = webdriver.Chrome('chromedriver',options=options)

3 frames
/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/common/service.py in assert_process_still_running(self)
115 return_code = self.process.poll()
116 if return_code:
--> 117 raise WebDriverException(f"Service {self.path} unexpectedly exited. Status code was: {return_code}")
118
119 def is_connectable(self) -> bool:

WebDriverException: Message: Service chromedriver unexpectedly exited. Status code was: 1

Can someone help on this.

getting the same error as above-mentioned :/

I have updated the solution, so it should work again now.